Sixth Week – 26th day trainingMedium run? (I need a better term to describe this 🙂 )Drink: 650 ml waterDistance: 10.1 km ()Intensity: Light to mediumTime started: 6:25 pmTime Ended: 7:28 pmDuration: 1 hr 3 min (63 min)Weather: Hot and light wind (28 degrees) Glad I went through the forest. It was quite hot. Hotter than I thought. I was sweating bullets. Tried my HRM. I am getting 155 to 165...
Marathon Practice #1From Mel Lastman to Casa Lomahttp://tinyurl.com/ctpuq Just planted out the actual course for the marathon. I am running up to 28 km. That will lead me to Casa Loma. 🙂 Quite excited. In 40 or so days I will be doing the actual race. I keep on looking at the pics they have at the website (www.torontomarathon.com). I see how it was wet and cold and yet everyone is still going :)...
Fight the temptation. I thought I put this in b/c I thought this is quite funny. I was telling someone in Running Room forum that there are times when I have the temptation to break my diet. Last night I have a hankering for ice cream. I went to the fridge, took out a drum stick, read the nutrition label. Holy cow 50% trans fat. I put the cone back in the fridge and never looked back.Reading...
Numbers off from the blood work I just got a call from the Hospital today. It turns out that the blood work I took last week some of the numbers are off. They told me to go to the hospital on Friday to redo the numbers. Let’s pray that this is nothing unusual. My first thought is that I might have to do with me taking protien shakes. Now thinking about it, I use to take a lot of protien...
Sixth Week – 25th day trainingTempo RunDrink: 600 ml Gatorade + 600 ml waterWeight Before: 148 lbWeight after: 148 lbDistance 10.7 km ()Intensity: 1/3 Light 1/3 Med 1/3 hardTime started: 6:50 amTime ended: 7:50 amDuration: 1 hrWeather: Light Wind and cool (23 degrees) I woke up late. I was suppose to run 15 km instead of 10 km. Overall it was good. The first third I keep myself from going...
Sixth Week – 24th day trainingShort runDrink: 600 ml waterDistance: 8 kmIntensity: LightTime started: 6:25 pmTime ended: 7:20 pmWeight before: 149 lbWeight after: 149 lbWeather: Cloudy and warm (23 degrees) A nice jog. I forced myself to slow down. There are so many times I want to go all out. I like my pace though. It was relaxing. Looking forward for tomorrow’s medium jog. I just...
8 km route for today
Nothing fancy except a hill at the last 100 m.
Fifth Week – 23rd day trainingBike RideDrink: 650 ml Gatorade + 591 ml waterDistance: 25 kmWeather: Windy and cool (25 degrees) It was such nice weather that I have decided to go for a relaxing bike ride. My plan was to go on the road for two hours. Weather was too good to stay home. It was nice and cool. I missed the long distance (100 km+) bike ride taht I have done last year. But my legs...
Fifth Week – 22nd day trainingLong Steady RunDrink: 650 ml Gatorade + 650 ml water + 591 ml waterGel: 3 (first one after 45 min, then 30 min after)Distance: 25 km (23 km 10/1, 2 km walk)Intensity: Light to mediumTime Started: 8:10 amTime Ended: 10:30 amDuration: 2 hr 20 min (140 min)Weather: Light wind and hot (27 degrees) Today is a murky day to run. I was sweating a lot. The first 7-8 km...
Fifth Week – 21st day trainingSlow RunDrink: 750 ml waterGel: 2 (1 before and 1 during)Weight before: 147 lbWeight after: 147 lbDistance: 10 kmIntensity: Light to mediumTime started: 7:05 pmTime ended: 8:20 pmDuration: 1 hr 15 min (75 min)Weather: Light and cool (25 degrees) Ran down to Running Room to grab some gel for tomorrow. Some how I lost one on the way back. Quads are getting sore...
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